At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of financial applications and manage stakeholder relationships.
- Company: Join a global leader in financial services with a commitment to innovation.
- Benefits: Flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and inclusive development opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic team environment with excellent career growth and learning opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the financial sector while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 10+ years in PL/SQL, Oracle databases, and strong problem-solving skills required.
The predicted salary is between 56250 - 68750 £ per year.
Hands-on technology with 15+ years developing large-scale financial applications. Must understand financial operations (middle/back office) and be motivated to learn diverse specialized topics in financial information processing. Must have solid core programming skills (data structures, algorithms, functional decomposition, code structuring/refactoring, core programming patterns, etc.), and knowledge of information system architecture principles (microservice architecture, three-tier architecture, event-driven processing, service orchestration/discovery, etc.). Must have good problem-solving skills. Must have experience with Transfer Agency. CI/CD and Agile experience required. Must be willing to learn and work with programming languages/frameworks other than main specialization.
As a Lead Developer, you will:
- Own the ZILO application platform across production, UAT, and development environments.
- Manage relationship with business stakeholders (Operations, Transfer Agency, Compliance, and ZILO vendors).
- Ability to transfer business requirements into technical solutions.
- Coordinate with offshore/onshore teams and third-party vendors.
- Work with a global team of software developers, QA engineers and business stakeholders.
- Develop new and maintain existing applications.
- Contribute code, perform code reviews, provide training to junior team members.
- Participate in discussions, planning, code release activities.
- Work closely with the Business/Product teams on requirements analysis, implementation estimates, and design.
- Provide hands-on real-time support for live production systems to ensure business continuity, help resolve processing issues, provide support for data conversions and onboarding.
- Help migrate existing services or develop new applications for public cloud platforms.
You will be expected to:
- Contribute independently and collaboratively.
- Interpret domain (financial processing) requirements, review business requirements for quality, and come up with technical solutions ranging from small fixes to feature implementations across diverse tech stack.
- Reverse-engineer functional specifications from existing code and relate existing architecture to business domain functionality.
- Understand the business processes supported by the application.
- Actively participate in the ongoing enhancement of supported applications; proactively identify critical issues and risks; troubleshoot and resolve issues within current software.
- Work in fast-paced agile team environment.
- Comply with standards and regulations established by both internal and external organizational governance.
- Be confident in making technical decisions independently and taking initiatives in order to make a positive contribution into the overall project stream.
These skills will help you succeed in this role:
- 10+ Years of Experience with PL/SQL programming, Oracle database.
- Experience in developing data solutions as Oracle App DB developer.
- Hands-on experience in writing complex queries, performance tuning, and designing for performance.
- Understanding of Financial domain, specifically OTC derivatives.
- Experience in working with Vendor platforms and critical transactional systems.
- Experience in agile delivery & adhering to SDLC processes.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, and collaboration.
- Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.
- Aptitude for learning new and complex environments, processes, and technologies.
- Ability to work under pressure to meet varying deadlines and work volumes and should have the ability to work in a coordinated team environment.
Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent required.
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